Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialised Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan State World Languages University Republican Scientific – Practical Centre of Developing Innovational Methods of Foregn Languages Authors

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Read the text, choose and circle the appropriate heading for each paragraph.

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a.  As there are advantages and disadvantages of 

every invention, sphere, and revolution, speeding 

of information also has two sides. When something 

happens or is discovered or invented in one corner 

of our planet, the whole world learns about it 

immediately. But there is a notion of information 

attack. It can be understood in two ways; the first 

interpretation is “attack to information” and the 

second is “attack somebody or something with 

the help of information”. Both of them are more 

dangerous showing catastrophic consequences 

than any type of attack with weapons or tanks. 

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b.  Attack to information is penetrating into ones 

PC and monitoring, snooping, spying, stealing 

Work in pairs. Read the statement and discuss it.

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Ideological attack is more powerful than military assault

information and so on. The worst site is that is 

easy to hack (steal) your information virtually and 

even you do not know when, how and who hacked 

and usually you cannot mind the event or object to. 

But Spying is sometimes legal, because you click 

on “I accept” in the licence agreements written in 

small prints even not reading. 

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c.  Information threat in business purposes also 

exists; it can be understood as attack to intellectual 

property. What is an nintellectual property? Simply, 

we can say that it is someone else’s intellectual 

working results such as musical, literary, and 

artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and 

words, phrases, symbols (trademarks), and designs. 

But owners usually suffer from not being able to 

prove that idea was originally created by them. 

File swapping with your friend is also against law.

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d.  Attack with the help of information is making 

someone or group of people accept someone’s 

ideas, set of beliefs or ideological views; especially 

it is made with pressure in different ways. Those 

ways may be encouraging, persuading or even 

financially supporting.